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He claims that it's the best general CMS but the only information he offers in support of that contention is the fact that it won this year's popularity contest

He claims that it's the best general CMS but the only information he offers in support of that contention is the fact that it won this year's popularity contest. Last year Drupal won. Was Drupal the better CMS last year and WordPress the better CMS this year? They've both improved but the relative differences between the two are much the same.

vlucas 17y ago
Actually, WordPress has improved leaps and bound this year while the public release of Drupal has remained fairly stagnant. WordPress has a new dashboard look and feel, automated system upgrades, automated upgrades for plugins, etc. Many things that make it super easy to use for non-techies.
- GiraffeNecktie 17y ago
  Well, if your only criteria for a CMS is making things super easy to use for non-technies, then I grant your point
steveklabnik 17y ago
>the only information he offers in support of that contention is the fact that it won this year's popularity contest. Did you miss this paragraph and a half? >WordPress bridges both the blogging and CMS categories due to the ‘Pages’ feature, and is extremely useful for managing a blog-focused website. Mostly. That is, until you want to do something that a CMS should be good at, like have an event calendar, custom form, photo gallery, etc. – which is why WordPress is not focused on being a CMS in the first place. Yet it does such a better job at the basic things like creating new pages, tagging, categorizing, comments, and having custom SEO-friendly URLs out of the box that it edged out other software projects like Drupal and Joomla! whose sole focus is content management. Sad indeed. >The fact that I can go through literally hundreds of open source content management systems and still end up settling on WordPress because I know it’s the only one that won’t totally confuse my client is what’s sad.

vlucas 17y ago

Actually, WordPress has improved leaps and bound this year while the public release of Drupal has remained fairly stagnant. WordPress has a new dashboard look and feel, automated system upgrades, automated upgrades for plugins, etc. Many things that make it super easy to use for non-techies.

GiraffeNecktie 17y ago
Well, if your only criteria for a CMS is making things super easy to use for non-technies, then I grant your point

steveklabnik 17y ago

>the only information he offers in support of that contention is the fact that it won this year's popularity contest. Did you miss this paragraph and a half? >WordPress bridges both the blogging and CMS categories due to the ‘Pages’ feature, and is extremely useful for managing a blog-focused website. Mostly. That is, until you want to do something that a CMS should be good at, like have an event calendar, custom form, photo gallery, etc. – which is why WordPress is not focused on being a CMS in the first place. Yet it does such a better job at the basic things like creating new pages, tagging, categorizing, comments, and having custom SEO-friendly URLs out of the box that it edged out other software projects like Drupal and Joomla! whose sole focus is content management. Sad indeed. >The fact that I can go through literally hundreds of open source content management systems and still end up settling on WordPress because I know it’s the only one that won’t totally confuse my client is what’s sad.